A Fighting Union’s Path to Renewal: The UE Story

Chris Townsend UE News
The ongoing organizational renewal and substantial growth of UE is one of the most remarkable stories in the U.S. labor movement in decades. Of the 42 unions who comprised the founding roster of the CIO in 1938 only eight survive intact today.

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Union Power: The United Electrical Workers in Erie, Pennsylvania

Frank Emspak and Paul Buhle Portside
One consequence of the rough times unions are facing today is a loss of institutional memory and history. This new book seeks to preserve that memory, and the how-to-be-a-militant-union knowledge that goes with it, by focusing on how one United Electrical Workers local union was built, and how it fared during the McCarthy years and afterwards.
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